Housing Affordability & Cost Burden

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House Ways and Means Committee Holds Hearing on the Housing Affordability Crisis

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee held a hearing, “Nowhere to Live: Profits, Disinvestment, and the American Housing Crisis,” on July 13. Witnesses included Dr. Elora Lee Raymond (School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Design at the Georgia Institute of…

Study Shows Lack of Affordable Housing Limits GDP Growth

Housing Policy Debate has published a paper, “Housing Affordability and Economic Growth,” examining how housing affordability impacts economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP). The author, Jerry Anthony, finds that increases in household cost burdens are associated with lower…

HFSC Holds Hearing on Private Equity Firms’ Impact on Housing Affordability

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee’s (HFSC) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on June 28, “Where Have All the Houses Gone? Private Equity, Single Family Rentals, and America’s Neighborhoods.” The hearing investigated the growth in corporate ownership of single-…